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Difficulties. THERE no doubt was a time when the Egyptian astronomer-priests imagined that, by the introduction of the 365-days year, beginning at the solstice or the nearly contemporaneous Nile flood (there is an interval of three days between them in the present Coptic calendar2), and by marking the commencement,in addition, by the heliacal rising of one of the host of heaven, they had achieved finality. But alas ! the dream must soon have vanished.
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LOCKYER, J. The Origin of the Year. Nature 46, 104–107 (1892). https://doi.org/10.1038/046104a0
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